What Lesson Suspending Kids for Wearing Confederate Flag?
Does the suspension of Christiansburg, Virginia teenagers actually undermine academic discipline and miss a perfect teaching moment?
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Colbert: Fit to Be Untied
What we're seeing in this photograph is the look of a person who's reached a tipping point.
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Christian Conservative “Counter Logic”: That Kim Davis Photo and God’s Law
This photograph of Kim Davis denying gay people equal treatment under the law by appealing to the dictates of her own conscience is a picture of the snake eating its own tail.
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On Light, God, Photography … and That Moment Just Before the Bad Thing Happens
The point isn't that photography is God, or that God is a photograph. But we are in fact dealing with a mode of communication that freezes time and space, obeys its own laws, is both visual and grammatical, and does more to generate meaning—and generates more meaning—than we can...
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Good Cop, Bad KKKOP
"White racists aren't racist because they hate blacks; they're racist because they don't know who they are without blacks."
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Photojournalism on Acid? — Google’s Neural Networks and a Post Deleted after WaPo's Armadillo- and Dog-Faced Treatment of the GOP Pack
Here we see GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump addressing reporters in an Alice in Wonderland world where loud bursts of patterns and color turn faces and neckties into dogs, ears into eyeballs, and hair into turkey vultures and armadillos.
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More Drama, Less Reality: The Case for Fake War Photography
The staying power of US war culture depends on a citizenry that keeps its distance from actual warfare.
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On Pointing a Handgun Directly at Ted Cruz's Head
These photographs make a point by turning the gun lobby's central argument back onto itself. If "more guns" is your only response to rampant gun violence, then at some point a law of averages dictates that innocent people are going to end up in the line of fire.
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Charleston: For My Soul Is Full of Troubles
Time and time again, the psalmist asks God a simple but difficult question: Why?
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Scott Walker and the GOP's Biker Pose
The Mad Max aesthetic lets the GOP project tribal and libertarian instincts at the same time.
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Migrant Other: The Rohingya Crisis and the Tendency of News Photos to Confuse Compassion with Patronization
I worry that newswire photographs during humanitarian crises have a way of exposing their subjects to a not-so-subtle mode of international brow-beating.
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Human Jetpacks Over Dubai’s Artificial Islands
It's as if this photograph catches humanity admiring its own awesome powers of creation.
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Beyond My Pet Goat: Race, Education and the President's Long Game
If you’re a politico and you want to make a point about education, you need to sit or stand in front of a wall of books. That’s the first rule. The second rule is to make it about the students. And like all the smart kids in school, President...
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Armenian Association
Rituals of public memory have always been about forming the community through public display—using cultural materials to fashion and shape how "we" want to remember ourselves.
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Watch This Digital Life
When it comes to organizing daily patterns of mobility and interaction, our machines steer us around just as much as we do.
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Indiana's March Madness
This odd notion that we can bracket our politics from the wide world of sports is getting harder and harder to embrace.
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Photojournalism and Public Trauma: Safe Travels
If we can't even trust our own pilots, is there anyone or anything left that we can depend on to assure our safe travels?
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Meta of the Military Photography Awards: You’re Either Flying High or Laid Low
While these two photographs aren't the only ones recognized as award winners, their place at the top does offer some insight into a limited range of human experience.
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